Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange (tells us who the hostages are)

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Source: The Peninsula

Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:10

By MOBIN PANDIT & AHMED EL AMIN

DOHA: Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks.

“These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday.

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Assange or Mansour, however, didn’t disclose the names of these officials. The WikiLeaks founder said he feared he could be killed but added that there were 2,000 websites that were ready to publish the remaining files that are in possession of WikiLeaks after “he has been done away with”.

“If I am killed or detained for a long time, there are 2,000 websites ready to publish the remaining files. We have protected these websites through very safe passwords,” said Assange.

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Assange Alerts His Hostages
By: emptywheel Wednesday December 29, 2010 8:23 pm
Assange’s message–on Al Jazeera, in a message directed to “the Arab Street”? If he is disappeared or killed or put away, the names of America’s stooges in the Middle East will be released on some outlet like Al Jazeera.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/12/29/assange-alerts-his-hostages/